A Complete Guide to Literary Analysis and Theory
Michael Ryan, "A Complete Guide to Literary Analysis and Theory"
English | ISBN: 1032305002 | 2022 | 294 pages | PDF | 114 MB
English | ISBN: 1032305002 | 2022 | 294 pages | PDF | 114 MB
A Complete Guide to Literary Analysis and Theory offers an accessible introduction to all the current approaches to literary analysis. Ranging from stylistics and historicism to post-humanism and new materialism, it also includes chapters on media studies and screen studies.
The Guide is designed for use in introductory literature courses and as a primer in theory courses. Each chapter summarizes the main ideas of each approach to the study of literature in clear prose, providing lucid introductions to the practice of each school, and conducts readings using classic and modern works of literature from around the world. The book draws on examples from a wide range of works from classics such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Shakespeare's King Lear to contemporary works such as Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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